What is CVE-2024-8983?

CVE-2024-8983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smashballoon Custom_twitter_feeds, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-10-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-8983?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-8983 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Smashballoon Custom_twitter_feeds

CVE-2024-8983

Custom Twitter Feeds WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capabil…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.004 (31.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Smashballoon Custom_twitter_feeds
Unknown Custom Twitter Feeds — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8983?: CVE-2024-8983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smashballoon Custom_twitter_feeds, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-10-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-8983?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8983 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.